Welcome to Community View. It’s a brand new section of the newspaper that we are reserving for reader-submitted content.
Here at Viewpoint, we’ve been a little overwhelmed this year. Our fantastic staff of columnists has put together some great columns, examining everything from local traffic to outer space. We never have to run pieces from other newspapers as filler. Everything you’ve read in the Viewpoint section this year was written by a member of the Daily Bruin or greater UCLA community.
Unfortunately, all of this hard work has a downside: We haven’t had much room to hear from you, the readers. We try to squeeze in the occasional submission or letter to the editor, but honestly I felt we needed to make more of an effort to incorporate the entire UCLA community into the newspaper that covers it.
So if you want to see your name in print, this is the place. Send us letters, submissions and original artwork, and you could see it here. Upload photos to our Flickr stream ““ those might pop up as well.
I want everyone who reads the newspaper to have a chance to respond to our coverage or to write about an issue we haven’t covered. If you’ve sent something to Viewpoint in the past and it wasn’t published, I apologize. But now, with our brand-new weekly Community View section, we’ll have plenty of space to run reader-submitted content.
Happy writing!
Jessica Roy
Roy is the 2008-2009 Viewpoint editor. You can reach her at jroy@media.ucla.edu. Send general comments and letters to viewpoint@media.ucla.edu.